Re: [tied] Re: Late Proto Albanian *3 /dz/ = Early Proto Romanian

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:49:29 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>If you discount the words starting with the prefixes di:- and dis-,
>there are, in my pocket dictionary,
>
>6 or 7 words starting di: - di:co: 'say', Di:do:, di:rus 'ominous',
>di:thyrambus 'dithyramb', di:(ve)s, di:(vi)t- 'rich' (and its
>compounds), di:vus 'god, divine' and its compounds, di:vum 'sky'.
>Not a rich haul.

>There are

*not*, I presume

>a great many words starting di- either: Dia:na,
>die:s 'day', Dindymus, Dipylon, Dirce:, disco: 'teach',
>discus 'qoit', a number of words in dic- - compounds of di:co:
>(formed from the weak grade, so a short vowel), diu: 'long time',
>and a few Greek words in dia(:)- or dio(:)-. Again, not very common.

Indeed. Moreover, the soundlaws doesn't apply only to initial di(:)-. Any
sequence /di(:)/ is affected. Such as, for instance, audí:re > auzi(re).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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